Shutter fastener and bower



(No Model.)

. W. J. SCOTT.

SHUTTER PASTENER AND BOWER.

No. 426,334. Patented Apr. 22, 1890.

ATTORNEY.

{B WE&:NVENTOE UNIT-El) STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VILLIAM J. SCOTT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHUTTER FASTE'NER AND BOWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,334, dated April 22, 1890.

Application filed September 17, 1889. Serial No. 324,258. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

.Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. Soorr, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shutter Fasteners and Bowers, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a shutter fastener and bower having novel features, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and definitely pointed out in the claims.

Figures 1, 2, and 3 represent perspective views of a shutter fastener and bower en1- bodying my invention, the parts thereof being in different positions. a vertical section thereof on line 00 at, Fig. 1. Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A and B designate windowshutters of usual construction.

0 designates a hook or keeper, which is secured to a face-plate D on one of the shut ters and has fitted to its outer limb a screw E. Fitted to the other shutter is a face-plate F, to which is fitted a screw G, whose head has a shoulder H on the back thereof.

J designates what may be termed a bolt,

the same consisting of two bars hinged to-' gether, one bar having a longitudinal slot K therein and the other bar having a row of depressions L on the outer face thereof.

The shank of the screw passes through the slot K, and the shoulder H is adapted to tighten against the Walls thereof.

It will be seen that when the shutters are to be fastened the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 1. In this case the lefthand bar rests upon the keeper 0, and the screw D is tightened thereagainst. The screw G is tightened against the walls of the slot K, and thus both ends of the 1eft-hand bar are clamped and Fig. 4: representsthe shutters are securely fastened. \Vhen the screws are loosened, the bolt may be thrown up, it turning on the screw G as an axis. (See Fig. 2.) The shutters may nowbe opened to full extent=and the bolt is thrown around so as to depend from the screw G, whereby itis out of the way, as shown by the dotted lines, Fig. 2. The shutters may be bowed and the bolt so turned on the screw G and its hinge that the right-hand bar rests on the keeper 0. The screw E is now tightened against the bolt and its point enters on the depressions L, thus lockingthe right-hand bar. The screwG is also tightened so as to lock the left-hand bar, whereby, as both bars are locked or clamped, the bars are prevented from moving on their connecting-hinge, and thus the bolt in its angular form remains rigid and the shutters are accordingly held in bowed position. Then the screws are loosened, the bolt may be manipulated so as to be placed again in either of the positions shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Having thus described my invention, what tudinally-extending slot and the other bar having a' row of depressions on the face thereof, the several parts named being combined substantially as described.

. WILLIAM J. SCOTT.

WVitnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, L. JENNINGS. 

